That’s why you should register immediately! :) It’s free and very easy, it won’t take more time than reading of these few lines. We ask only for your valid email, and we don’t share it with any third-party organizations and don’t use it for sending unwanted mail (spam).

It’s even more simple if you’ve already got a Facebook.com account. Then you may use a ‘connect via facebook’ option, and it authorizes you on our site in one click (if you’re already logged in in your FB account).

1.3 Cum îmi şterg contul?

1.4 Cum schimba limba interfeéi mele?

LyricsTranslate is available in many languages, thanks to our interface translators. If you would like to see the list of the languages or to change yours, simply click on the “Select Language” button in the top right corner of every page, and then select a language from the list! If you make a mistake and choose a language that you don’t understand, you can always switch back to English (or another language), as the button stays the same regardless of the interface language.

If you want to reply to a message another user sent you, there is a Reply field just underneath their message. Simply type in your response and click “Send message”. You can also check how your message looks like, before sending it, with the “Preview message” button.

Please note that you should have your PM enabled, in order to send and receive messages. It is enabled by default, but should you wish to change that setting, go to your profile->Edit->Enable private messages (located at the bottom of the page) and untick the box.

If you wish to block a specific user from sending you messages, head over to the message they’ve sent you and click on “Block user”. You can later unblock them by heading over to the “Blocked users” tab in your inbox and click “Unblock” next to their name.

2.2 Cum adaug un artist?

Please use the search first, to check whether the artist you're looking for already has a page.
New artists are added automatically by the system when you open a page with their song. If you wish to add a song by an artist that’s not already present, then go to Actions->Add new song. Write the artist’s name and click Ok. You can add some infomation about them (country, genre, original name, website and wiki), and later on, after submitting the song, you can even add a picture of them.Please note that the name of the artist should be written in Latin script (Transliterated), even when their original name is written with a different alphabet. In order to make it available in the search in the respective language, please add the original writing of their name in the “Original name” field.

2.3 Cum adaug un videoclip?c

You can add a video to all songs that you’ve submitted. To do so, either fill in the “Video” field with a link when adding a new song, or go to the page you wish to add video to, and click “Edit”, then add the link to the “Video” field.If you wish to add a video to a song you haven’t submitted yourself, please use "Report broken data/spam" button on the song page.

2.5 Cum editez o traducere, un cântec, sau un artist?

First of all, you should be logged in to edit information on the site. Then there are two possible situations:

I. You want to edit information submitted by you - it’s a translation you posted, an artist or lyrics added by you.
Then you should go to the content page - it may be a translation page or an artist page or a song text page and there you’ll see an ‘Edit’ button at the top of the page (just below the content header).
Of course, you should be logged in to see this button.

II. You want to correct information submitted by someone else. Then you may take any (or all) of these steps:

a) Write your corrections in page comments. Thus, a correct information becomes available to all visitors, including page author.

If you're going to ask for a transcription of a song that's performed in more than one language, please add the names of the languages in the comment section or in the title field, between parenthesis.

2.7 Covers and alternative performances

If there're multiple artists who performed or covered the song, they should be listed in the "Also performed by" field while adding the song. In such a case, translations would be available for all artists who performed the song.

2.8 Soundtracks

If you're going to add a soundtrack to the database, please add as artist the movie/musical name and the people who sang the song you're adding in the 'Featured artist' field - It will ask you to add a new artist in case it has not been added yet, so add all the information asked. Do not use any of the fields to add character names - if you want to give that information, you can add a submitter's comment.

If the soundtrack has been translated into different variations of a same language, feel free to add content in both of them, just add a tag citing the name of the variation between parenthesis - and after the original song title. For instance: 'Yo te amo [I Love You] (Spanish)', 'Une chanson d'amour [Uma Canção de Amor] (Canadian French)', and so on. However, if the variation already is in our language lists, select it as the language of the lyrics - in this case you don't have to add a language tag.

If a song has been recorded specifically for the movie, please add the film title as an artist, with all real performers as featuring artists.

b) Second, use request search by request database. May be the translation you are looking for has already been requested by someone else.
If that’s your case, follow the link and press ‘Subscribe’ on the page of this request. You’ll receive a notification when someone adds the translation.

If yes, then find the title of your song on the artist’s page, follow the link, and use ‘Request new translation’ button on the song page. If there’s no such song in a song list, use the ‘Request new translation’ button on the page. In this case you’ll be asked to provide the song lyrics - to make it possible for a translator to read and translate the song.

If there’s no such artist, use the menu at the top of the page: Menu -> Actions -> "Add new request" button. Then you’ll be asked to add artist’s name and additional information about this artist (if you know any - it’ll be useful for others).

If you can’t go through all the previous steps because you don’t know an artist name and / or a song title are incorrectly spelled, first use forum to identify it.

Please note that the number of requests is limited to two open requests per one song.

3.2 Cum adaug o traducere de versuri?

First of all, you should be logged in to add a translation. Also, when you want to add a translation, it’s very important to use lyrics and artist information which may already exist on the site.

First, look for the song you want to translate. That song might already be on LT, either under the artist you want or under another artist - e.g. the original artist, if your song is a cover. Even if you didn't know, the song might be from another artist, and already be on LT.

If you didn't find the song this way, try looking on the page of the artist you want to specify for the song, and look there.

If you still can't find it, use artist search to find a page related to a singer / band who sings the song you’d like to translate.

3.5 Alternative translation requests

Senior Members are allowed to request alternative translations even if a song is already translated to the target language.

If a song was already translated into a language you wanted, please do not request a new translation before checking. Read the translation, if you think there are minor things that need to be altered, check if whoever added it is still active, then leave a comment. If the user who submitted this original translation is no longer active in the website, open a new request - but please leave a comment explaining. Also, before opening a request, please check the site (as you might be adding a request for a duplicate entry which has already been translated into the language you want elsewhere).

Translations made via Google Translate or other machine translation services are not allowed on LyricsTranslate.com. Users who post such translations may be banned. The prohibition includes translation based off machine translations which have then been edited by the user.

If you are not proficient enough in a language, do not post translations in that language; or, ask for help in the forums, and only post the translation when the people who are helping you consider it to be good enough.

3.9 Transliterations

Languages in lyrics pages are expected to be written in their native scripts (e.g. Russian parts of a song are expected to be written in Cyrillic alphabet). To help people who cannot read the original scripts, one may rewrite (or copy) the lyrics in a different script (typically, roman letters). This is known as a transliteration.

If you want to upload a transliteration, upload it as if it were a translation to another language, but when asked for a language, select "Transliteration". You may upload more than one transliteration to a single song.

Partial transliterations ( transliteration in two scripts) are not allowed.

If this was correctly done, links reading "Original" and "Transliteration" will appear above the lyrics, like here. (If there's more than one transliteration, there will be links for "Transliteration 1", "Transliteration 2" ...) Clicking any of the links will change the song lyrics to a different script, instantly and without reloading the page (JavaScript must be enabled in order to do this).

3.13 I started learning a new language, how about translating into it?

Please do not translate if you are a beginner and do not have enough knowledge of a language. You can always request help from other (native) speakers via PM or proofreading, but if your translation does not make any sense, it can get unpublished. While LyricsTranslate is a powerful learning tool and it can help you improve your language skills, we suggest you to request a translation instead, if you feel like you do not have enough writing/grammar knowledge.

4.1 What are Idioms for?

Idiom is a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. Idioms database is for storing idioms in different languages and, of course,
their meanings, translated (or not) to other languages. Some phrases used in song lyrics are difficult to understand,
that’s why we added idioms databank to the site. Users can add new idioms, meanings (definitions) to existing idioms, request idiom for explanation, etc.
See next Q’s for details.

4.3 How to add new explanation to existing idiom

4.4 Cum să ceri o explicaţie pentru o expresie

To request an explanation for existing idiom, you can use Request for explanation button on the idiom page. To find idiom page, use idiom search. If you want to know the meaning of the idiom that does not exist in the database, use request explanation form.

5.1 Puncte

This site uses a point system to determine a user's basic standing on the site. You get points by adding content, and you need a certain amount of points to use the site without certain limitations on sending messages, posting links, adding requests, using profile settings, etc

10 puncte pentru postarea unei traduceri

10 points for creating a collection

3 puncte pentru postarea unei transcrieri

1 punct pentru postarea unei expresii sau cântec

2 points for posting an explanation of a idiom

2 puncte pentru adăugarea unui artist

Points are a good way to judge a user's experience with the site, but take them with a grain of salt: They correspond to the quantity of a user's content, not the quality of it.

Sometimes site administration can manually add points for some useful deeds, e.g. when a user translates this site interface to another language.

User can hide his user role from “About translator” block, shown at the top right on a translation page. To do this, use a top page menu: Menu -> Profile -> Edit Profile -> “Hide your role from "About translator" block” option.

Translator’s badges are shown in an “About translator” block. If you want to hide your badges from this block, use a top page menu: Menu -> User Profile -> “Hide your badges from "About translator" block” option.

5.5 Localization

We'd like to make LyricsTranslate interface available in different languages. Presently we can do it only with help of our visitors - with your help.
If you think you'd like to help - read this interface translation text and go on further :)

5.6 Corectură

Every translator can mark his translation for proofreading, so that other members can see easily where their help is wanted. "Request proofreading" button can be found on a translation page. Logged in users can search within marked translations.

6.1 Use advanced search

The search form you see in a header of every page of LyricsTranslate.com uses Google search. It’s convenient for a general full-text search through all song texts, comments, forum posts etc., but has some restrictions (inconvenient display of result pages).

Try using advanced search because it allows very fine tuning of your search query.

You can also use a "value" attribute to a) set the numbering to start from the given value, or b) to set an arbitrary text string as label.Ex:[fn value="5"]This becomes footnote #5. Subsequent are #6, #7...[/fn][fn value="*"]This footnote is assigned the label "*"[/fn]Using value="" you can have multiple references to the same footnote in the text body.[fn value="5"]This becomes footnote #5.[/fn][fn value="5"]This is a reference to the same footnote #5, this text itself is discarded.[/fn]